【圖書簡介】 For her 25th fan-pleasing outing, Rice reunites some of her most popular creations and, for the first time since Memnoch the Devil (1995), lets the Vampire Lestat "write" the book. Taking up where last year's Blackwood Farm ended, the now-doppelganger-free Quinn Blackwood and Lestat save Quinn's true love, the witch Mona Mayfair, from certain death by making her an immortal. In his effort to attain sainthood, Lestat must deal with a lot of metaphysical angst. The opulent Blackwood estate and its spooky swamps, as well as New Orleans and a Caribbean isle, provide the settings for many elegant costume changes as the exquisite vampiric triumvirate gleefully suck several deserving victims dry and lay waste to dozens of a drug lord's minions. The vampirisation of young Mona, a true child of our times, gives Rice a dynamic new vampire personality with whom to play. Writing as if her blood-inked quill were afire, Rice seems truly possessed by her Brat Prince of darkness as she races through the story. She sometimes slights members of the vast supporting cast, both dead and alive, but neatly ties up all their loose ends. The complete unification of the Mayfair witch saga with that of the Vampire Chronicles provides either a befitting end or a new beginning for the Queen of the Vampires.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. :This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
【作者簡介】 Anne Rice is the internationally bcstsclling author of nine previous volumes or The Vampire Chronicles. including Interlies with the Vampire (filmed by Ncil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt),Queen of the Damned (recently filmed starring the late cult singer Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend), Memmch the Devil, The IFampire Armad, Merdck, Blood and Glod,and Blackwood Farm (due out in Arrow paperback). Her other numerous works 0f fiction include the shorter vampire novels, Pa.dora and Vittorio tile Vampire, as well as Servant of the Bones, IFioli. and +lT;e l;cast oJ All Sai.ts. She was born in New Orleans and lives there today.